Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.
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Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face.
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I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.
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When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
